meditations and musings from the mind of an average Joe

From time to time I have had the privilege of preaching at our home church. Our pastor has been preaching through the gospel readings of the Lectionary, so I decided to preach through the selected Psalm for that week. I’m posting the sermon transcripts from these sermons as I have the time, but in no … More Psalm 25- Forget Not All His Benefits

I like to read labels when I shop. It’s a sickness, I think. But the way things are marketed can say a lot about a people. Walk down any aisle in the grocery store and you will quickly see that we are obsessed with things in their most natural state–natural, unfiltered, raw, organic, wild. When … More Psalm 77- A Song for the Day of Trouble

Life is full of trade-offs. I remember being just out of college when I first listened to a cassette tape of a John Maxwell seminar called 10 Trade-offs Worth Making. While I have forgotten the actual trade-offs he mentioned, the principle itself stayed with me. And while the law of the trade-off is inescapable, we … More The Inescapable Law of the Trade Off

Throughout the course of our six children being born, there were many entertaining discussions between my wife and me concerning names. I have friends who always wanted the sex of the baby to be a surprise, but I was not those people. One of the main reasons had to do with this issue of naming … More Naming Rights

Look at the worldly and at the whole world that exalts itself above the people of God: are the image of God and his truth not distorted in it? They have science, and in science only that which is subject to the senses. But the spiritual world, the higher half of man’s being, is altogether … More Modern America in the Words of a 19th Century Russian

The news feed on my phone keeps sending me updates on both the Republican National Convention and Comic-Con, the largest comic book convention happening at the same time in San Diego. It’s just as well, I guess. There are quite a few similarities. Both conventions have there fair share of characters. Whether its men in … More Comical Chaos and the Tale of Two Conventions